How to Show the Tables in a MySQL Database Server

In this guide i will guide you the simple step to show the table on the database server. Assume that the wordpress blog has been installed and running fine with the following database details:

Database Name : wp1db
Database User : wp1user
Database Password : wp1password

Go to the terminal or ssh to MySQL Database server. You should login as wp1user.

[root@server ~]# mysql -u wp1user -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 198
Server version: 5.0.77 Source distribution

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> status
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mysql  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.77, for redhat-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.1

Connection id:          204
Current database:
Current user:           wp1user@localhost
SSL:                    Not in use
Current pager:          stdout
Using outfile:          ''
Using delimiter:        ;
Server version:         5.0.77 Source distribution
Protocol version:       10
Connection:             Localhost via UNIX socket
Server characterset:    latin1
Db     characterset:    latin1
Client characterset:    latin1
Conn.  characterset:    latin1
UNIX socket:            /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Uptime:                 1 hour 10 min 58 sec

Threads: 3  Questions: 3307  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 57  Flush tables: 1  Open tables: 
29  Queries per second avg: 0.777
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mysql> use wp1db;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed

mysql> show tables;
+-----------------------+
| Tables_in_wp1db       |
+-----------------------+
| wp_commentmeta        |
| wp_comments           |
| wp_links              |
| wp_options            |
| wp_postmeta           |
| wp_posts              |
| wp_term_relationships |
| wp_term_taxonomy      |
| wp_terms              |
| wp_usermeta           |
| wp_users              |
+-----------------------+
11 rows in set (0.01 sec)